Writely or Wrongly Joanne Anderson

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Zusammenfassung

A humorous, irreverent guide to writing with more clarity and fearlessness.

Writely or Wrongly Zusammenfassung

Writely or Wrongly: An unstuffy guide to language stuff Joanne Anderson

An essential guide for anyone with cause to communicate in written form (most of us), a passing interest in doing it better (some of us), and a disinterest in a book on said subject that is humourlessly preoccupied with rules (almost all of us).

Author Joanne Anderson has expanded on the popular tips she shares weekly with writers at Nine mastheads so that readers everywhere can benefit from her entertaining and incisive observations.

Writely or Wrongly considers:
- Why English needs conventions for clarity but also why some things many of us believe are correct or important ain't necessarily so
- Cool things punctuation marks do
- Things that mangle sentences
- Uncool things jargon does
- Common pitfalls
- And much more!

Writely or Wrongly Bewertungen

'It's good to finally have a book to learn us how to use the English language proper' SHAUN MICALLEF

'Handbook as much as playbook, here's a guide with grammar the subject, and pleasure the object.' DAVID ASTLE

Über Joanne Anderson

Joanne Anderson has worked as a journalist on major publications in Australia and Hong Kong. She joined The Age's subediting team in 2004, eventually becoming chief desk editor, a role in which she herds thousands of words each day and adjudicates on tricky language questions. She has worked on in-house style guides and written a weekly newsletter on English use for staff at The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald and their sister publications. Joanne lives in Melbourne but does not like Aussie rules.

Matt Goldingis a Melbourne-based cartoonist whose work has appeared in newspapers for more than two decades. Matt thinks in images and has a history of managing to write wrongly, even though his tiny pocket cartoons generally contain very few words. Jo has long been called upon to right his wrongs, and the making of this book was no exception. He too cares less about footy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

First things first
Chapter 1 A thing or two that got us here
Chapter 2 Things to stay calm about: rules that aren't rules
Chapter 3 That writing thing: are we clear?
Chapter 4 Things that punctuate our lives
Chapter 5 More things that punctuate our lives
Chapter 6 Things that lie in wait to trap us
Chapter 7 The thing about American English
Chapter 8 Befuddling things
Chapter 9 Things to use as argument starters at parties
Chapter 10 Things this book might be asked if it couldbe asked things

Last things last
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR013880200

ISBN 13

9781922616708

ISBN 10

1922616702

Titel

Writely or Wrongly: An unstuffy guide to language stuff Joanne Anderson

Autor

Joanne Anderson

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Verlag

Murdoch Books

Datum

2023-10-03

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224

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